Word: barzun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Possessing what coach Edo Marion has called "one of the strongest saber teams in the Ivy League," the Crimson swordsmen took a commanding 13 to 8 lead midway through the match. The five point margin was made possible by double victories in the saber by captain, John Kennedy, Roger Barzun, and Paul Zygas...
...runs Yale's Junior Year Abroad program, in 1961 became chairman of the important Course of Study Committee. Now, as Dean May, he will oversee living and learning for 3,990 undergraduates, and become, if one pleased prophet is right, "Yale's answer to Jacques Barzun," the Paris-born provost of Columbia...
...saber, rated the Crimson's strongest event, Paul Zygas scored two victories and John Kennedy and Roger Barzun each won once, but the N.Y.U. team managed an overall 5-4 win. N.Y.U. also took the foil events...
...impoverishment by riches is only one of the strange strains that federal money puts on schools. Among professors, the academic pecking order has made the research grant, in the cutting words of Critic Jacques Barzun, "tantamount to a patent of nobility." Moreover, most federal research is still confined to a few great universities with a corner on great scholars...
...fine company were claustrophobic. And it is a fine company. Robin Ramsay, as La Brige in Article 330, is a lithe-limbed and limber-tongued Australian who gives the part a cockney gusto which it lacks in the original, improving from time to time on Professor Barzun's stiffish translation and livening it up with sparks of "business" of which Courteline would have approved, I am sure. As Andre, the lover in Boubouroche, he is finesse personified, a sort of David Niven almost turned fop, with balletic precision in every mannered gesture. George Bolton comes over well, in Article...